[CHEATS] Skill Cheat Not Working To Lower Skill Level

I rarely use this cheat. I increase all the time, but decrease? Hardly ever. Unfortunately, I need it for my current gameplay. I'm fairly certain it used to work.

I’m having the same problem. I can’t lower my Sim’s skill level. I’m on Mac.

I'm having this issue as well. I was trying to lower my sim's handiness and cooking skills to something reasonable since they're both really inflated but it doesn't work. This is frustrating since I really don't want all my sims to be super overachievers and I often use cheats to correct bugs in the game. 

I have the same issue. The cheat only works for increasing the skill, but not for lowering it.
Months ago this cheat worked. Please fix this, because alien-sims with high mischief-level are a pain...

As of today, the cheats still not working to lower (or increase in my case) skill level. What brought me here was the situation with the toddler’s milestones. Since my toddler started with 2 skill points, I couldn’t unlock all motor milestones. So one bug highlighting another.

Is it ask for too much just get the game fixed? T.T I literally have every single little thing they released so far, and every new pack/expansion/kit/free update breaks the game even more…

This is a bug that has reappeared and happened in the September 2024 update (had to go to the archived Answers HQ post to remember when it was specifically posted). So, this has been going on for about 9 months now.

Just encountered a frustrating situation in one of my saves. I leveled up the skills for my toddler, thinking she was getting the milestones and saved. Later found out that her milestones was bugging out when i was doing that and she did not get those milestones. I had to go to manage world and load back in my lot for her milestones to work properly, but since I saved with the skills leveled up, I can't level them down to get those milestones. So now she's missing a large chunk of milestones because when I was leveling them up, they weren't counting for some reason and because of this bug, I can't lower the level to get those milestones. This is honestly really frustrating. And don't get me started on reborn sims who start as infants. When they age up, they already have their skills maxed, so you lose a large chunk of milestones as well, so you can't lower their skills to get those milestones as well.

Same. I used to be able to set skills to the desired level I wanted with this cheat. But now I can only raise them. They won't lower no matter what you do. So I have to clone sims to reset them fully if I want to lower their skills, which is a pain.

I’ve also been having this issue for months. I have all packs and have never used mods or custom content. I like to start my main sims as infants and collect all the milestones and skills along the way. However, completing all the infant gross motor milestones makes it so you can’t complete the toddler motor milestones. I used to cheat their movement skill lower to get all the motor milestones. It’s really annoying to not have that option anymore. I’d honestly be happy if there was just a way to add milestones through chests. That way I could add the missing milestones, which would be good enough for me. 

Just piling on to say I'm experiencing the same problem on Mac. I have about half the packs installed, no mods or CC, and am experiencing problems specifically related to Growing Together.  I had an infant reach every milestone, which resulted in them aging up with some skills elevated. Most of the thinking and movement related milestones are not working. I've been trying to reduce the skill level of my toddler so I can redo the milestones that did not trigger. The cheat simply does not work to reduce skills. 

Looks like I'm finally going to start experimenting with mods to either down level the skills or manually add the trait/milestones that I'm going to miss for storytelling purposes.  The milestones have been an issue forever, but really disappointing that the workaround is now broken too.